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by scroot 6y ago
Emacs never really got the "popular test" that something like Hypercard did at a very important time in the adoption of personal computing, probably because most normal personal computer users didn't have access to it. But wh
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by scroot 6y ago
The lisp/smalltalk style of computing was meant for a world in which there was not such a strong divide between users and programmers. We did not get such a world, and our consumer systems have taken on (an actively promote) the opposi
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by scroot 6y ago
Correct. To put it another way: he is choosing this word because he is arguing that those in power (neoliberals) view common people as unsophisticated rabble who cannot and should not be making important decisions. It is not the author&#x27
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by scroot 6y ago
> People trading 'things' like favours is pretty natural in that it happens easily The author seems less concerned with what "happens easily" than with what is taken as a kind of natural law. The dominant ideology of
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by scroot 6y ago
> there appears to be a positive correlation between robust markets and clean drinking water for everyone Given the context of this article, it's then worth asking: were the "markets" of the Magdalenian also "robust&q
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by scroot 6y ago
Check out the book the author of this piece has written, "The Enchantments of Mammon." His very point is that neoliberal thinking has replaced religion in a vital sense
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by scroot 6y ago
> There’s very large swaths of the planet where you are supposed to drink only bottled water Is that the "natural" order of things? Certainly it isn't, at least no more than markets or money represent a "natural order
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by scroot 6y ago
What's unclear here?
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by scroot 6y ago
Seems pretty straightforward to me. He presents an intellectual history of neoliberalism (whose attributes he also describes), and charts out how its evolution has beared down on the present. This particular author also has a wider thesis t
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by scroot 6y ago
By saying this, you are confirming the author's argument about how (recent) cultures interpret the role of markets in all of life
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by scroot 7y ago
> all of the long-lived platforms today are programmable Sure, programmable by what today we'd call "programmers" but certainly not by "users." This is because programming has become a niche trade (as I said befo
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by scroot 7y ago
Anyone interested in prototype-based languages should also checkout io [1], which is a really clever implementation that doesn't get enough love. And unlike Self it will work with your favorite teletype emulation environments. [1] htt
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by scroot 7y ago
This was the view of "what personal computing would be like" held by the original LRG team at PARC. There would be no distinction between "user" and "programmer," since using the system would at some level invo
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by scroot 7y ago
Does HARC count?
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by scroot 7y ago
> The user/programmer divide is a symptom of yet another sharply increasing “inequality”. We need to think about it in fundamental terms, and can’t solve the problem just by making “coding” appear cool. It’s not enough to have refer
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by scroot 7y ago
Whatever pushes progress in the low-power, reflective technology of epaper displays should be celebrated, I think. One could imagine hacking something like this tablet to have a true interactive Squeak like environment on it. Or, better yet
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by scroot 7y ago
Probably giving myself way too much credit even with the 30%. It's this paper [1] that I've struggled with for years. There is some intuitive part of my brain saying that there's something awesome happening here, but I can&#x
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by scroot 7y ago
> The whole point of the discussion around computer and computer languages/systems as tool for thought, is presuming that computing can be another form of mass literacy. Let's also not get into whether this should be the case (
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by scroot 7y ago
I have to admit: I've never been able to fully wrap my head around Piumarta's papers for STEPS (in particular the COLA stuff), but think I "get" about 30-40% of it. Even that part I understand sounds like magic.
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by scroot 7y ago
All of those guys had funding trouble. Even HARC didn't last more than a couple of years, I think because the funders pulled out. That Nile/Gezira has languished is especially tough, but I think that's partially because Amela
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by scroot 7y ago
> Those Nile links are good ones, I do recommend following them up. The work that Piumarta and Amelang et al did on STEPS is totally underrated. It has been quite sobering to watch these ideas go ignored by the larger community.
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by scroot 7y ago
> However, one question that I have about Smalltalk and historical Lisp machine environments is whether there has been any work done on implementing support for other languages Today's open source Smalltalk VMs are developed in and
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by scroot 7y ago
To me, these are what computing should be all about: blurring the distinction between user/programmer, but providing gradations of complexity, comprehensiveness, and control. Lazarus aside, it seems FOSS isn't going to give us the
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by scroot 7y ago
TTY is baked pretty deeply in there regardless of the shell
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by scroot 7y ago
Ok but let's be honest: Unix is at it's core still a teletype emulator no matter where you use it. It's the central metaphor for the system.
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by scroot 7y ago
> the only alternatives you offer are tools that don't exist because people didn't use them They may not have wide adoption, but the tools he's describing very much exist. Wirth even published a book that describes how to
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by scroot 7y ago
> most programmers are in an abusive relationship with their runtime environment. Just pulling this out because it's a good sentence.
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Squeak 5.3 Released(squeak.org)
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I remember getting a skin pack for EV that turned all the ships into Star Wars ships, it was awesome
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by scroot 7y ago
> But, the logic behind "many long-shot bets in parallel" is inherently more difficult to explain in the political arena, which is why I think VC may actually be better at some of these kinds of things This does not mean the VC

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